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Tue, Aug 09: RCMP Insp. Allan Lai speaks about a recent carfentanil seizure . Canadian Border Services agents intercepted the parcel, which was sent from China, at Vancouver International Airport on June 27.

Wed, Feb 1: As the drug overdose crisis continues to grip our province, there is now confirmation a deadly new player has entered the opioid game. Catherine Urquhart reports.

The mother of a young man who lost his life to the deadly drug carfentanil spoke out Thursday morning at a Winnipeg Police press conference, as authorities warn the drug has arrived in force in Winnipeg.

Tue, Nov 22: An urgent warning from Vancouver Police after the discovery of drugs tainted with highly toxic Carfentanil. It’s an opioid 10,000 times stronger than morphine. As Catherine Urquhart reports, its arrival in Vancouver comes at the worst possible time.

We all know about the deadly epidemic of fentanyl overdoses. But a new drug called carfentanil poses a threat to all Canadians, even those who don’t do drugs. Rumina Daya reports.

New Brunswick’s Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health is warning New Brunswickers about the dangers of the deadly opioid carfentanil. Dr. Russell says one person has died in the southern part of the province with traces of the drug in their system. Global’s Adrienne South reports.

Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid far more potent and lethal than fentanyl, and Kingston-area health officials say it’s being found in local drug supplies.

An extremely toxic and deadly drug has been uncovered in a southwest Edmonton home. As Julia Wong reports, over $3 million of carfentanil was found.

The John Howard Society in Kelowna has put out a renewed warning about street drugs after six overdoses in their Leon Avenue shelter on Tuesday afternoon. Another overdose was reported nearby during the same time period. Interior Health put out a warning last week that carfentanil, a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl has...

The dangers associated with drug use in Kelowna’s downtown core took a frightening twist this week when there were several overdoses in the notorious Cornerstone homeless shelter. The overdoses come on the heels of a warning from Interior Health that the deadly drug Carfentanil was making its way into the Okanagan. As Kelly Hayes reports,...

Authorities have been grappling with drug overdoses related to Fentanyl, and now word from Toronto police of a recent rash of deaths that could be linked to Carfentanil. Caryn Lieberman reports.

Police and health care officials are worried that a new killer drug known as “purple carfentanil” is on the streets of B.C. that could even give users who test their drugs a false sense of security. Rumina Daya reports.

Tue, Aug 09: Calgary police A/Insp. Martin Schiavetta says police are concerned about the increase from Fentanyl to Carfentanil.

Tue, Aug 09: RCMP Insp. Allan Lai says if you come across carfentanil, don’t touch it and call authorities.

Ontario saw more deaths related to the drug in the first four months of 2019 than in all of 2018. Dr. Dirk Huyer calls it the province’s top public health challenge. Mark Carcasole reports.

It’s heroin laced with elephant tranquilizers, and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. Now the Winnipeg police say carfentanil is in Winnipeg, Winnipeg Police deputy chief Danny Smyth told the media Thursday morning.

Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that’s grouped with heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone and could me laced into or mixed with drugs users are already using, Winnipeg health officials said Thursday morning.

It’s a drug one hundred times more toxic than fentanyl, and it’s killing people in our region. That’s the warning tonight from the Interior Health Authority. As Klaudia Van Emmerik reports, IHA and the B.C. Coroners Service are cautioning local drug users.

Teens in Manitoba said it’s time to change the messaging around impaired driving because of the emergence of fentanyl and carfentanil. Students from River East Collegiate had a chance to see a new film by Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada (MADD), called In the Blink of an Eye. Global’s Zahra Premji reports.

New data collected by KFL&A Public Health shows the dangerous synthetic opioid, carfentanil, is circulating in the Kingston area.